Miniatures
This book is the first of its kind to present readers with the rich and innovative source base deployed by scholars studying everyday life in the modern era. Twenty-eight researchers from diverse intellectual and disciplinary standpoints each present a favourite primary source for studying the histo...
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| description | This book is the first of its kind to present readers with the rich and innovative source base deployed by scholars studying everyday life in the modern era. Twenty-eight researchers from diverse intellectual and disciplinary standpoints each present a favourite primary source for studying the history of everyday life, accompanied by a reflective commentary on the benefits, challenges, and potential pitfalls of using their chosen material.
The sources included range from ego documents (diaries, memoirs, letters), oral testimonies, ethnographic fieldnotes, newspapers, magazines, and official documents to photographs, film, maps, floor plans, drawings, material objects, and instant messages. They cover topics and themes as varied as individual mentalities, emotions, identities, sense of place, sexuality, and agency; experiences of space, violence, war, childhood, humour, the body, and the senses; and the history of nationalism, diplomacy, political activism, youth culture, tourism, memory, dictatorship, colonialism, and race and racism.
This book demonstrates not only the texture and fascination of people’s everyday lives, but also what a critical reading of this microscale can reveal about the broader sweep of history. It will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students alike interested in everyday life, in micro- and local-scales of analysis, and in the study of history and society ‘from below’. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1593182025-05-13T04:35:35Z Miniatures Ferris, Kate Halstead, Hugh everyday life, everyday life history, historical research, Alltagsgeschichte, colonialism, ego documents, dictatorship, microhistory, oral history, social history, totalitarianism, war, primary sources, social history ‘from below’, history of the emotions This book is the first of its kind to present readers with the rich and innovative source base deployed by scholars studying everyday life in the modern era. Twenty-eight researchers from diverse intellectual and disciplinary standpoints each present a favourite primary source for studying the history of everyday life, accompanied by a reflective commentary on the benefits, challenges, and potential pitfalls of using their chosen material. The sources included range from ego documents (diaries, memoirs, letters), oral testimonies, ethnographic fieldnotes, newspapers, magazines, and official documents to photographs, film, maps, floor plans, drawings, material objects, and instant messages. They cover topics and themes as varied as individual mentalities, emotions, identities, sense of place, sexuality, and agency; experiences of space, violence, war, childhood, humour, the body, and the senses; and the history of nationalism, diplomacy, political activism, youth culture, tourism, memory, dictatorship, colonialism, and race and racism. This book demonstrates not only the texture and fascination of people’s everyday lives, but also what a critical reading of this microscale can reveal about the broader sweep of history. It will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students alike interested in everyday life, in micro- and local-scales of analysis, and in the study of history and society ‘from below’. 2025-05-13T04:35:34Z 2025-05-13T04:35:34Z 2025-05-12T12:58:32Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101625 9781804130018 9781804130025 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159318 eng Exeter Histories of Everyday Life open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101625/1/9781804130063.pdf University of Exeter Press 10.47788/XNQO7504 10.47788/XNQO7504 1417d5ed-2c7f-456e-84f4-e75128a86747 3f0a4da2-418f-411a-ae5f-8d27e0601aec 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9781804130018 9781804130025 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 370 772353 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council 10.13039/100010663 open access |
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| topic | everyday life, everyday life history, historical research, Alltagsgeschichte, colonialism, ego documents, dictatorship, microhistory, oral history, social history, totalitarianism, war, primary sources, social history ‘from below’, history of the emotions |
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